Hi fellow market-eers, On Wednesday, March 29, we welcomed Rob Stone to campus. Rob is the President/CEO of Marketing 2 Point 0 in Edmond, OK, and is an expert in field of all things SEO (search engine optimization). After hearing Rob speak at a PRSA meeting in January that I attended with my good buddy […]

Never has 140 seemed like so little as when you’re trying to squeeze down a tweet, amiright? And then you figure in 23 of those precious characters are used for a link and 24 of them for an image and you’re left with 93. Ninety-three characters to craft the perfect message, build your brand, give […]

Working with departments on web content and CMS training, I am constantly preaching the importance of web accessibility. I know how to make content more accessible and why, but explaining the importance to our web authors can be difficult, until the day I met Brian. During a workshop for our Web Accessibility Higher Education project, […]

We all know captioning video content is the law, but that doesn’t make it any easier to do. Luckily, we’ve compiled a list of resources that will get the job done for free, or with a budget. Make sure to bookmark this link so you can get stay up to date as the technology gets […]

Webaim This is a pretty prolific site that has a cool little toolbar to install to your bowser. It’s called Wave. You’ve probably seen it before. It’s a great tool, but it is also easy to fool. Just because your site passes with no accessibility errors, does not mean it’s accessible. It only means it […]

Closed captioning, theoretically, isn’t very difficult. However, when you are first starting out it feels a little overwhelming. What service do you use? How do you upload? Export? Import? I’m already feeling stressed out. This blog post will open up the world of closed captioning for YouTube. So, get ready. We are about to become […]

Sometimes it’s easier to resolve an issue with someone right beside you…. If you want in-person support, visit us during our open office hours. Beginning next Wednesday, Nov. 30, Web Communications will open up our office for you. Just bring your laptop and questions. No appointments necessary. I’ll be available for help with CMS components, […]

Accessibility is something as a University we all care about. When it comes to the web, we take it seriously. It’s also fun to read about how technology is taking accessibility to the next level. I just played around with some of the iOS5 functionality for hearing and vision impaired, and it’s pretty impressive. Read […]

We all know the importance of captioning online videos, but we wanted to make it very clear on the Web Communications website. So here it is! Check out the newest Web Comm website addition that really breaks it all down for you. Thoughts? Additions? We want to hear/read them!

Recently, and the timing here is purely coincidental, we’ve been ranked “Average” in a Web Accessibility study done by Illinois University. I know we can do better than Average. Read more about the study here. On the development side of the CMS, we take web accessibility very seriously. Because you know, it’s the law and […]